The evasi0n jailbreak uses exploits that will disappear in iOS 6.1.3.

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Apple’s next minor point iOS update will fix the exploits that allow iPhones to be jailbroken with a very popular tool, according to a report from MacRumors. The 6.1.3 update, which was seeded to developers as a beta one week ago, will break the functionality of the jailbreaking tool known as “evasi0n,” meaning its creators will have to find a new way around or through the OS.

6.1.3 will already be an important security update, as it purports to fix a zombie passcode bypass bug that cropped up in iOS 6.1. When 6.1.3 is pushed out, phones with that version installed will be unable to use the evasi0n jailbreak, which had relieved almost 7 million phones of Apple’s pesky walled-garden strictures since early February in only three weeks of availability.

While that’s a lot of reach for a jailbreak in such a short time, three weeks is actually a long time for Apple to leave a jailbreak exploit open: MacRumors points out that Apple shut down Jailbreakme 3.0 for the iPhone 4 after only nine days.

Forbes reported that one of evasi0n’s handlers, David Wang, said it might be a month or more before Apple releases 6.1.3 to the general public. Wang noted to Forbes that if Apple manages to patch most of the bugs used for the jailbreaking tool, evasi0n would be “starting from scratch.”

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Casey Johnston
Casey Johnston is the former Culture Editor at Ars Technica, and now does the occasional freelance story. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Applied Physics. Twitter@caseyjohnston

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No, there are several updates to iOS every year and only one or two jail break exploits.

There was even an iOS update a few weeks ago which did not stop this jail break from working.

Jail breaking and DRM and piracy have never been a priority to Apple, they just care about the security hole — and if nobody is being exploited (a jail break is not malware) they take their time to get it right.

The jail broken phone market isn't really that big. Apple patching security holes on their phones is in the best interest of their user base. If people hate it, get an Android phone. Or don't update your phone and stick with the old version.

@heinousjay:I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, are you sure you're responding to my post? What does this have to do with moving to Android when we're talking about Apple?

Probably this:

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I was an Apple fanboy from 2002-2006, and I bailed because I was seeing one after another "security updates" that were nothing more than a way for Apple to push out controls. It's not a market, but it's my choice, so I chose with my wallet, I moved to Linux and Android.

I'm sure you just got your dates wrong, but it reads like you were an iPhone user before Apple released it, managed to become unhappy about the software updates that Apple had not done yet (and wouldn't have for a few years) and bailed to Android before that was even unveiled.

Apple is closing a security hole in iOS. If this happens to inconvenience jailbreakers, that's not Apple's problem. Nor should it be seen by any reasonable person as a deliberate attack by Apple on the jailbreakers.

If they know about a security hole, whether or not it is being used for jailbreaking, they should absolutely fix it as soon as they can.

Dan Aris

This is the only comment here that really captures the "true" story here. People want to be upset and place malicious intent with Apple but they're just plugging a security hole that can be utilized for both good and bad.

I note with interest that my fellow Android users here think this 'locking down" business is all bad, but to be honest, as a die hard Android user, I wouldn't mind if Google took a bit more of an iron fist approach to Android. It's been 3 years since I started using Android phones, and I still feel extremely weary and uncomfortable just app-browising in the Play Store and downloading apps.

Sure, they say that it's for "techie" users and people need to be smart enough to decide what's safe, but come on, it's my phone. It's not my computer, I don't want to have to do the extra work of investigating each app I use.

If anything, I'd love if the Play Store (when presenting you with the permissions an app wants) forced the developers to state exactly why they need and use said permission, and to make that a binding contract; if you say you're using a permission for something and it turns out you were lying, you get banned from publishing again.

At the end of the day, I envy iOS users because when they hear about iOS updates, almost all of them can be sure that they'll be getting it. My phone is still on 4.1.1. Although I'm rooted and using a customized stock ROM, I don't use Cyanogen because several things work significantly better with the stock ROM (which I completely understand why, not bashing their hard work). and I don't think HTC will ever send even a 4.1.2 update my way, much less a 4.2.2 update.

I switched to Linux in 2006, but didn't want to give up my iPod. However, every update seemed designed to do nothing more than break functionality with anything but Windows/Apple:iTunes, none of which Linux supports. An iPod isn't worth that to me, if Apple wants to lock me in, I'm gone. Interesting how nothing ever changes, now it's control of your firmware rather than your hardware that's the issue, but it's still all about control.

From the verb tense in your comment I assume you are using a 2006 or earlier model iPod (IE: Pre-iPod Touch). If so, you may want to check out Rockbox. Rockbox is a free and opensource alternative firmware for a variety of MP3 players out there and works on most iPods before the iOS based touch iPods. I am currently using it on my iPod Classic (and running Debian Sid GNU/Linux on my home computer). Rockbox will add additional features such as custom skins, additional file format support (OGG, FLAC, WMA, ... hell, even Monkey's Audio), plugins, custom scripting, and about a thousand other things that iPods can't normally do. Best of all, NO ITUNES NEEDED. Rockbox gives your iPod a fully accessable drag-and-drop filesystem. You have full access to every system file and can add media simply by dropping it on your iPod just like any other removable media.

This is the only comment here that really captures the "true" story here. People want to be upset and place malicious intent with Apple but they're just plugging a security hole that can be utilized for both good and bad.

Unfortunately, Apple has put iPhone owners in the awkward position of needing a security phone to control their own hardware. Thus by Apple's choice, closing a security hole removes functionality. So Apple should both be praised and criticized for closing the hole.

This is the only comment here that really captures the "true" story here. People want to be upset and place malicious intent with Apple but they're just plugging a security hole that can be utilized for both good and bad.

Unfortunately, Apple has put iPhone owners in the awkward position of needing a security phone to control their own hardware.

I don't know what a "security phone" is, or why I should need it to control some other piece of hardware. I own multiple Macs and an iPhone, and I don't need any of them to use the others, though there are things I can do better because I have both, rather than a non-Mac computer or a non-iPhone smartphone.

What functionality does closing this security hole remove? Anything besides jailbreaking (which will be enabled again within days, at most, through a new hole, and isn't something Apple has ever advertised or encouraged)?

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So Apple should both be praised and criticized for closing the hole.

No, actually, neither is true. This is just Apple doing their jobs. I don't think that's particularly worthy of praise—and it's certainly not especially worthy of criticism, unless you want to nitpick about how long they've known about the security hole but not fixed it.

Smart phone newbies (basically anyone that didn't own a Blackberry) need to realize that the "appstore" is a recent invention. When all you had was Blackberry, you bought from 3rd party companies that were professional (Handigo), downloaded from getjar, sourceforce, or even personal websites. It wasn't a big deal because the granularity of the security functions on a blackberry made it likely you could wall off the app.

The iphone appstore makes money for Apple. (Most iphone app developers are lucky to net minimum wage.) Apple will never give up the noose it has around the sheeple's collective necks.

Apple could make a secure iphone and allow side-loading if they wanted. Everyone else can.

Lets clear up a few things. In the "old days" when I had my variety of Palm devices, Palm 3, V and Tx, there were app stores. Palm itself as part of their website hosted Palm applications for sale and download as well as applications from other developers. Additionally there were also several other popular sites that sold applications for Palm devices and other devices that were around at the time.

Smart phone newbies (basically anyone that didn't own a Blackberry) need to realize that the "appstore" is a recent invention. When all you had was Blackberry, you bought from 3rd party companies that were professional (Handigo), downloaded from getjar, sourceforce, or even personal websites. It wasn't a big deal because the granularity of the security functions on a blackberry made it likely you could wall off the app.

The iphone appstore makes money for Apple. (Most iphone app developers are lucky to net minimum wage.) Apple will never give up the noose it has around the sheeple's collective necks.

Apple could make a secure iphone and allow side-loading if they wanted. Everyone else can.

Lets clear up a few things. In the "old days" when I had my variety of Palm devices, Palm 3, V and Tx, there were app stores. Palm itself as part of their website hosted Palm applications for sale and download as well as applications from other developers. Additionally there were also several other popular sites that sold applications for Palm devices and other devices that were around at the time.

So no. the app store is not a recent invention.

Pretty sure you completely missed the mark on what he meant by "recent invention". What you have described is not an appstore, it's just a bunch of websites that independently sold applications.

Somehow I have the faint feeling you're one of those people who does not want to acknowledge any of the trends that Apple set off in the mobile industry...

I really don't get the vibe in so many comment threads about jailbreaking, that is all about "Apple is holding my device hostage and without a Jailbreak it is useless".

I do own iPods since 2004, and and iPhone and iPad since 2011. I have yet to come into a situation where these devices could not perform a task because of Apples walled garden. Everything I did want to do with one of the devices could be done fine without Jailbreak.

I do respect everybody coming from the direction of Richard Stallman who rejects closed software for principal reasons, that is not my line of argument here. I just want to know, which use cases do need a jailbroken device as I have yet to encounter one (pirating software would be such a use case obviously, but this does not appeal to me).

But then I just can see my side of the things and I would like to know what are the use cases that drive people to jailbreak their iDevice or drive them away from the iOS platform entirely.

Right off the top of my head: keyboard.I *hate* Apple's iOS keyboard. The autocorrect is marginal, and there's no way to customize/improve symbol/number entry (and long press functionality isn't customizable either). There's no way to install a third party keyboard short of jailbreaking.

Whereas on my Android device, I can use SwiftKey without issue and it works great. Of course, some people may not like SwiftKey, and that's fine too: you can install whichever input software works best for you and that's the point.

The keyboard is one of the most glaring examples, but it's hardly the only one.

I want my phone to automatically go into tether mode for my morning and evening commute (I take the bus). With Android (via Tasker), this is trivial to accomplish, and when I get home it goes back to using wifi.

I like being able to play movies and music off of USB drives (USB OTG cables allow my device to act as a USB host). This also applies to playing games with a USB controller.

I actually have access to the phone's filesystem, so I can use things like Dropbox much more effectively (no need for dedicated handlers in the Dropbox app; any app capable of reading the file can be used just fine).

I can customize my launcher to fit my needs, and can use widgets to display information that I need readily available (especially useful on my tablet, where I have a whole screen dedicated to work, with widgets for tasks, email, and meetings all nicely arranged).

I can use SSH tunnels to reach my work or home networks whenever needed, I don't have to rely on VPNs or third-party services.

My phone can automatically set itself to vibrate based on pattern matching with calendar events.

My phone can automatically set itself to vibrate just based on the physical orientation of the phone (I have "face-down" set to vibrate).

My carrier can't restrict which devices are allowed to use my data connection.

When I plug my headphones in, I can have a popup of different media apps to launch.

I could keep going, but I hope I've made my point. None of these are things you can do with iOS short of jailbreaking (edit: other than tethering on Verizon if you have an LTE device).

This isn't about some Stallman-eque matter of principle; there are very real things that I do with my devices on a regular basis that would be flat out impossible on an iOS device without jailbreaking.

as a die hard Android user, I wouldn't mind if Google took a bit more of an iron fist approach to Android. It's been 3 years since I started using Android phones, and I still feel extremely weary and uncomfortable just app-browising in the Play Store and downloading apps.

This is neither here nor there. The store itself is not the matter at issue. It has been and continues to be that on iOS devices there is no equivalent of Google's "Unknown sources" checkbox, which I don't believe has ever been a source of problems. Same for everything else you wrote.

If Apple doesn't wake up and at least start loosening the restrictions when they release iOS 7, I fear there will be nowhere to go but down for their marketshare numbers. Even non-techies are beginning to see the advantages of Android's more open system.

Nonsense. "Non-techies" have no awareness or need for the supposed "advantages of Android's more open system." You are thinking from the detached geeks point of view.

Can someone explain exactly WHY Apple is so tough on jailbreaking? Personally I would never buy a phone or tablet I couldn't root, and I suspect many of the millions who have downloaded evasi0n would concur.

I understand that Apple needed to fix the previous security holes where you could root your phone by visiting a website, but evasi0n requires so much user interaction it can't really be a problem. So why is Apple killing off such a big market?

Yes, many of the problems listed above have been (mostly) fixed today, including in OS X, but that isn't because the OS was inherently secure by design; it's thanks to a lot of patchwork hacks by people who had to work on Unixen because everything else was too expensive (VMS, mainframes), too toyish (Mac, Amiga), or out of the question (MS-DOS).

For God's sake, will all the whiners please just go to Android already? Although, I guess there's no guarantee you won't continue to whine against Apple even after you've dumped all Apple products. But we can hope.

@tylerwayne:...I'm 55...Let Apple have the "I don't want to know how it works, I just want to push buttons" crowd. My grandma's been dead for 40 years, but she could run an iDevice. Me, I like to be able to configure things my way, not let Apple tell me what I want.

First of all you don't sound like any fifty-five year old I know talking that stupid shit about your grandmother. That sounds like some punk-kid to me...the type that wants to complain about a product he is not being forced to buy. It sounds like you made the right decision by switching to Linux and Android. Apple's not telling you what you want now, are they? I don't think they were before...there's always been a choice.

At 38 I'm no spring chicken either. I hope if and when I see 55 I have more important things to boo-fucking-hoo about than some tech product I no longer use. I mean Android is a worthy alternative. Use it and enjoy the rest of your life FFS.

But then I just can see my side of the things and I would like to know what are the use cases that drive people to jailbreak their iDevice or drive them away from the iOS platform entirely.

Right off the top of my head: keyboard.I *hate* Apple's iOS keyboard. The autocorrect is marginal, and there's no way to customize/improve symbol/number entry (and long press functionality isn't customizable either). There's no way to install a third party keyboard short of jailbreaking.

Whereas on my Android device, I can use SwiftKey without issue and it works great. Of course, some people may not like SwiftKey, and that's fine too: you can install whichever input software works best for you and that's the point.

The keyboard is one of the most glaring examples, but it's hardly the only one.

I want my phone to automatically go into tether mode for my morning and evening commute (I take the bus). With Android (via Tasker), this is trivial to accomplish, and when I get home it goes back to using wifi.

I like being able to play movies and music off of USB drives (USB OTG cables allow my device to act as a USB host). This also applies to playing games with a USB controller.

I actually have access to the phone's filesystem, so I can use things like Dropbox much more effectively (no need for dedicated handlers in the Dropbox app; any app capable of reading the file can be used just fine).

I can customize my launcher to fit my needs, and can use widgets to display information that I need readily available (especially useful on my tablet, where I have a whole screen dedicated to work, with widgets for tasks, email, and meetings all nicely arranged).

I can use SSH tunnels to reach my work or home networks whenever needed, I don't have to rely on VPNs or third-party services.

My phone can automatically set itself to vibrate based on pattern matching with calendar events.

My phone can automatically set itself to vibrate just based on the physical orientation of the phone (I have "face-down" set to vibrate).

My carrier can't restrict which devices are allowed to use my data connection.

When I plug my headphones in, I can have a popup of different media apps to launch.

I could keep going, but I hope I've made my point. None of these are things you can do with iOS short of jailbreaking (edit: other than tethering on Verizon if you have an LTE device).

This isn't about some Stallman-eque matter of principle; there are very real things that I do with my devices on a regular basis that would be flat out impossible on an iOS device without jailbreaking.

Thank you for your good explanations, you really seem to enjoy to customize your phone much more than I would do and I can see how this is only possible with a Jailbreak. Out of your list I only need access to Dropbox/Skydrive/ftp-servers, which I centralized with a third party app that lets me access all of these services from one point. But as I said in my initial post, I was interested in hearing of different use cases which you provided a plenty. Thanks again for sharing.

@tylerwayne:...I'm 55...Let Apple have the "I don't want to know how it works, I just want to push buttons" crowd. My grandma's been dead for 40 years, but she could run an iDevice. Me, I like to be able to configure things my way, not let Apple tell me what I want.

First of all you don't sound like any fifty-five year old I know talking that stupid shit about your grandmother. That sounds like some punk-kid to me...the type that wants to complain about a product he is not being forced to buy. It sounds like you made the right decision by switching to Linux and Android. Apple's not telling you what you want now, are they? I don't think they were before...there's always been a choice.

At 38 I'm no spring chicken either. I hope if and when I see 55 I have more important things to boo-fucking-hoo about than some tech product I no longer use. I mean Android is a worthy alternative. Use it and enjoy the rest of your life FFS.

Oh hush now, didn't you know that as Android users, we're all automatically admitted to the "Hate Apple" club? Obviously by choosing Android we must unequivocally hate Apple and insult Apple users at every turn, because that's what King Google wants.

...Oh hush now, didn't you know that as Android users, we're all automatically admitted to the "Hate Apple" club? Obviously by choosing Android we must unequivocally hate Apple and insult Apple users at every turn, because that's what King Google wants.

I actually don't even own an iOS device at the moment. My current phone is an older Samsung. My next one could be an iPhone. Or it could be that new upcoming GS4 with the 13 MP camera and other awesome specs.

...haven't decided yet. Either way I'll get a phone that does what I want it to do. For some people the choice is clearer...especially Linux-users and people that want to customize. I respect that. But someone (not you) saying that iOS is for "idiots" or "dead grandmothers" due to ease of use, closed platform, or more security isn't going to dissuade people that would rather have such an experience from getting an iPhone. It's going to solidify their opinion and make the nerd-raging antis look like the hard-ons they really are though.

I read a lot of comments with criticisms that are very broad on both platforms, even related to platforms that have no link to the article.

I work a lot with mobile devices from all brands, and studied the impact/likelyness of malwares infection for Android, IOS and BB;

There is a lot of misconsception about malwares, android security and IOS security.

Android and IOS both have a very good security and rights isolation / permissions.

I can safely state this because : NbOfInfections/NbOfDevices < 0.00000000....1

I have never seen a practical threat, that would be worth mentioning and that is actively exploited currently. Yes there is a threat, and with every device ever connected to the internet, especialy if you download apps from untrusted sources and/or custom roms for android, you have to take care about what you do. (not to say custom android roms are a problem, I use one, but you have to trust the guy who cooked it, and trust he relied on safe sources for all the patches he added to the apps/kernel used to cook the rom. Xda is usually a safe place but I wouldn't trust any obscure chinese website to provide me the latest hacked MIUI)

A couple apps have been detected on the play store that could lead to security problems, but only a couple thousands installations have been reported as malware, and quiclky removed / fixed, so the threat is not really, should not be platform security argument.

Rooting and jailbreaking increase risks, but not so much on android because of the SU mechanism. (you can basically allow an app requesting it, to bypass any security mechanism on the phone, but no other app can use the permission.)

However, on IOS, jailbreaking really breaks the core security mechanism, except now, the hackers have added new security layers, that seems efficient.

For my own preference, Android is my choice for phones and IOS for tablets because of some exclusive apps.

I hope they catch up soon on tablet apps on android because the Nexus 10 is just awesome. And yes I will root it.

...Oh hush now, didn't you know that as Android users, we're all automatically admitted to the "Hate Apple" club? Obviously by choosing Android we must unequivocally hate Apple and insult Apple users at every turn, because that's what King Google wants.

I actually don't even own an iOS device at the moment. My current phone is an older Samsung. My next one could be an iPhone. Or it could be that new upcoming GS4 with the 13 MP camera and other awesome specs.

...haven't decided yet. Either way I'll get a phone that does what I want it to do. For some people the choice is clearer...especially Linux-users and people that want to customize. I respect that. But someone (not you) saying that iOS is for "idiots" or "dead grandmothers" due to ease of use, closed platform, or more security isn't going to dissuade people that would rather have such an experience from getting an iPhone. It's going to solidify their opinion and make the nerd-raging antis look like the hard-ons they really are though.

Precisely. Although I am an Android user, I am not naive.

Many, many people see their phones as appliances, in the same way they see their dishwashers as appliances. Just as they purchase their dishwashers on the basis of whether or not they perform their job, they do that with their phone. Just as they are not interested in customizing and having choice with the software that runs on their dishwashers, they aren't concerned about their phones. This is extremely difficult for most Android users to understand; most just shut it out and blindly say that Apple users are "stupid".

The only reason I don't own an iPhone right now (for at least the sake of trying it) is because I'm too used to the UI operation of Android. Maybe at some point I'll get over it and try, I don't know.

The sad thing is that some people like me only jailbreak to have easy access to APN settings (straight talk)... The things I do for family...

But to correct things like APN settings shouldn't require compromising the security of the phone (especially if you're doing it for family members that don't fully grok the implications, or can't manage them.)

Report the requirement to Apple via bugreporter.apple.com! (You can manage the data APN, but not the MMS or tethering ones, via iPhone Configurator or a downloaded configuration file.)

@Matt Wallis:There may be more malware in Android - do you have statistics or urban legends on that? And no, Google is not a reliable source - but I'd rather deal with a platform that leaves me choice rather than a nanny platform that tells me how I can use my device in every way. I'm a grown-up adult (55 yrs old and probably more experienced than you) and I dumped Apple because it's not about choice, it's about doing it "the Apple way".

Well, this is the least amount of down voting I've seen in any Apple related topic in quite a while.

As far as I'm concerned this is a "meh" topic. Apple fixes security holes pissing off their techie customers. Tomorrow it'll be Apple pisses off their techie customers for not fixing security holes. I'll stick with Android and be happy where I am.

The sad thing is that some people like me only jailbreak to have easy access to APN settings (straight talk)... The things I do for family…

A major issue with digging in mess with the settings (and UI tweaks and so on) is that it becomes a support nightmare. Support is a big deal for Apple, both its own of iPhone owners and also support by 3rd party of stuff sold off the AppStore as well as carriers.

@Matt Wallis:There may be more malware in Android - do you have statistics or urban legends on that? And no, Google is not a reliable source - but I'd rather deal with a platform that leaves me choice rather than a nanny platform that tells me how I can use my device in every way. I'm a grown-up adult (55 yrs old and probably more experienced than you) and I dumped Apple because it's not about choice, it's about doing it "the Apple way".

People like you are why younger people don't respect older people.

And being mindless iCattle who don't think something through before rattling off standard Apple FUD is why older people think you have no grip on reality.

Apple is closing a security hole in iOS. If this happens to inconvenience jailbreakers, that's not Apple's problem. Nor should it be seen by any reasonable person as a deliberate attack by Apple on the jailbreakers.

If they know about a security hole, whether or not it is being used for jailbreaking, they should absolutely fix it as soon as they can.

Dan Aris

Apple's path: Release a major update with stupid flows like Zombie pass code --->>> wait to the jailbreak ---> figure out how jailbreak is done ---> fix jailbreak flow and the dumb security flow.

The first thing I do with an iOS upgrade is jailbreak. I hate the Home-Settings-scrolldown-Brightness-slider-Home-readingApp cycle to adjust brightness for reading in the dark. I've also started using a short press on the Home button as "Play/Pause" so I can do it without looking. I have a non-techie friend who has me jailbreak his phone because his power button is flaky, so he has a good way to shut it down.

There are many reasons for people who accept the iOS ecosystem to still want a little bit more flexibility.

People evangelize the "need" for jailbreaking (or "no walled garden") the same way they evangelize the "need" for handguns or the "need" for negating patent law: not because it makes any sense, but because of a misplaced adherence to an abstract idea of "freedom" that has nothing but destructive real-world consequences.

Doesn't 7 million votes for a jailbroken iOS suggest Apple should just make a "jailbreak" option for iOS?

No. Among over 500 million devices in total that is still just a tiny minority of 1.4%.

Jeopardizing device security for 98.6% of all users just to accomodate such a tiny minority would be a very bad decision, not least because this compromised security would cause a lot more than just 1.4% of the other users to leave the platform (most notably many business customers).

kbutler wrote:

The first thing I do with an iOS upgrade is jailbreak. I hate the Home-Settings-scrolldown-Brightness-slider-Home-readingApp cycle to adjust brightness for reading in the dark. I've also started using a short press on the Home button as "Play/Pause" so I can do it without looking. I have a non-techie friend who has me jailbreak his phone because his power button is flaky, so he has a good way to shut it down.

There are many reasons for people who accept the iOS ecosystem to still want a little bit more flexibility.

I very rarely touch the brightness setting since automatic brightness control works too well to fiddle with it all the time. For the remaining rare cases changing the brightness on the iPhone is easy enough; Various reader apps also have a built-in brightness control as well. On the iPad brightness control is also reachable to the left of the app switcher (together with volume and music control).

Yanking out most of the system's security measures just for trivial stuff like that is simply reckless.

The first thing I do with an iOS upgrade is jailbreak. I hate the Home-Settings-scrolldown-Brightness-slider-Home-readingApp cycle to adjust brightness for reading in the dark. I've also started using a short press on the Home button as "Play/Pause" so I can do it without looking. I have a non-techie friend who has me jailbreak his phone because his power button is flaky, so he has a good way to shut it down.

There are many reasons for people who accept the iOS ecosystem to still want a little bit more flexibility.

On the iPad you could just make a four-finger swipe up and bring up the app switcher, one swipe left and you can control brightness and music.On the iPhone you only get the music control that way, though.

Apple is closing a security hole in iOS. If this happens to inconvenience jailbreakers, that's not Apple's problem. Nor should it be seen by any reasonable person as a deliberate attack by Apple on the jailbreakers.

If they know about a security hole, whether or not it is being used for jailbreaking, they should absolutely fix it as soon as they can.

Dan Aris

Imagine a scenario where Apple builds in vulnerabilities that are well nigh impossible to find until they announce one which can then be exploited in order to force an upgrade past the current Jailbreak level. Of course I'm not saying they are this nefarious but just imagine.

Anyone who really cares about keeping their device jailbroken does not update without thinking.

I haven't bothered to jailbreak my device since the days when it was the only way to develop for the iPhone.

To me, phones are just another gadget. While it's admirable that people act according to their ideologies about software and hardware, it would be nice if they did so without demeaning and attacking others that don't have the same notions or strength of philosophy.

Apple is closing a security hole in iOS. If this happens to inconvenience jailbreakers, that's not Apple's problem. Nor should it be seen by any reasonable person as a deliberate attack by Apple on the jailbreakers.

If they know about a security hole, whether or not it is being used for jailbreaking, they should absolutely fix it as soon as they can.

Dan Aris

Imagine a scenario where Apple builds in vulnerabilities that are well nigh impossible to find until they announce one which can then be exploited in order to force an upgrade past the current Jailbreak level. Of course I'm not saying they are this nefarious but just imagine.

Now imagine a perfectly spherical horse on a frictionless surface in a vacuum.

Hrmmm wrote:

To me, phones are just another gadget. While it's admirable that people act according to their ideologies about software and hardware, it would be nice if they did so without demeaning and attacking others that don't have the same notions or strength of philosophy.

I logged in again specifically to up-vote this comment. Wiser words have never been spoken in any of these Android vs. iOS threads. Kudos to you, sir!